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Leonelli, Sabina(Formerly MIT Press, from 2012 published by Springer, 2008)

Bio-ontologies are a relatively recent achievement of the bioinformatic effort toward an efﬁcient organization and distribution of biological data. They provide a structured, controlled vocabulary through which data ...

Resnik and Master (2011) propose a set of authorship guidelines for what they describe as “conceptual” papers in
bioethics. These guidelines speciﬁcally address who should
count as an author within multiply-authored ...

Introduction
Big data are widely seen as a game-changer for social relations, communication and governance around the world. The emergence of big data also promises to revolutionise the production of knowledge within and ...

This paper addresses the phenomenology of bodily feeling in depersonalisation disorder. We argue that not all bodily feelings are intentional states that have the body or part of it as their object. We distinguish three ...

This paper presents a particular understanding of Bourdieu’s social theory and the
place of language within it, in response to Susen’s depiction of these matters in his
“Bourdieusian reflections on language: Unavoidable ...

The question of whether we can perceive absences, in addition to 'positives', has received recent
attention in the literature on the nature of vision and audition. The aim is to demonstrate that
there can be objectless ...

Harmonized regulation of research with human stem cells in Europe has shaped innovation in
regenerative medicine. Findings from a Phase III academic clinical trial of an autologous cell
procedure illustrate the obstacles ...

In recent years, states and non-governmental organizations have expressed concern about the humanitarian consequences of the category of technologies labelled 'explosive weapons', particularly in relation to their use in ...

Human nature is of course a fundamental concept for social science. There is a widespread belief, even among some social scientists, that human nature is a biological given something that should be elucidated by the ...